What kind of message does he send when he gets a DUI behind the wheel of his Mecedes? Millions of impressionable people look to him for guidence and they see DUI=OK. How will Stone make up for the thousands of destroyed lives?

A search of his Mercedes turned up drugs, Edmundson said. He did not specify what kind.

Stone was released Saturday morning after posting $15,000 bail.

A message left Saturday with Stone's agent David Styne was not immediately returned.

In 1999, the filmmaker pleaded guilty to drug possession and no contest to driving under the influence and was ordered into a rehabilitation program.

Stone's films include the recent "Alexander," "JFK" (1991) and "Natural Born Killers" (1994). He won Academy Awards (search) for directing in 1989 for "Born on the Fourth of July (search)" and in 1986 for "Platoon," which also won the Oscar for best picture. He lives in Los Angeles

What kind of message does he send when he gets a DUI behind the wheel of his Mecedes? Millions of impressionable people look to him for guidence and they see DUI=OK. How will Stone make up for the thousands of destroyed lives?

This caution is particularly relevant with Stone. In the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, he revealed a rather disturbing worldview. While most Americans were appalled by the attacks, Oliver Stone apologized for the terrorists by blaming large U.S. media companies.

At an HBO Films panel on "Making Movies That Matter," Oliver Stone opined that huge corporations that make mediocre movies are part of what made Osama bin Laden plan the Sept. 11 attack. "They control culture," he said of the corporations, in comments quoted in the New Yorker. "They control ideas. And I think the revolt of Sept. 11th was about 'F-- you! F-- your order.' "
The outrage of fellow panelist Christopher Hitchens is often directed at corporations, too, but he had a different view this time. "Excuse me?" he said.

"Revolt? It was state-sponsored mass murder, using civilians as missiles." Hitchens said later he thought Stone was "a moral idiot as well as an intellectual idiot." Stone said later, "This attack was pure chaos, and chaos is energy." (Source: Leah Garchik, "The Stars Weigh In," San Francisco Chronicle, October 16, 2001.)

Stone influences millions of people as his work. That his job. This episode of DUI=OK will kill people since they will argue "Everyone is doing it" because they think the cool people are.

Keep 'em coming Dulouz. I have another hour to kill and your posts are keeping me in stitches.
Oliver Stone = Mr. Virtue?????????????????????
Why do you insist on putting him on a pedestal?
He is a person with flaws just like you and me.
Was JFK really that good of a movie to convert you into a "Stoner"?